In the early 1940’s, Pittman began collecting originals and copies of letters, manuscripts and holographs by, or relative to, George Mason of Virginia, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12 1776, and the Virginia Constitution of the same year—from which our U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights was derived.

It is inspiring to know that against all odds,The Bill of Rights has served as security for the exploration of consciousness and expansion of ideas that have made The United States so important in the world today. strength of truth.